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Very good! I found out that you may start the beamoff binary from the command line by running

sudo <path-to>/beamoff.app/Contents/MacOS/beamoff

...and it works! So, provided you put the beamoff program in /Applications/Utilities, you may have it automatically fixing your graphics at startup by creating the file beamoff.auto.plist inside /Library/LaunchDaemons with the following contents:

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Thank you for the beamoff fix; this fixed my last issue with the VM running my TV and it now plays HTML5 videos very well.

Also if anyone has the issue of crackling output from digital audio (optical) out, for me it was solved in the BIOS. I disabled integrated graphics, the integrated SATA I wasn't using, the serial port, and everything else unnecessary. Now I have crystal clear digital audio again.

My Yosemite on Workstation 11 VM is a dog. beamoff and Quartz Debug both make a big difference - but not for long. The VM freezes under either - typically when scrolling Safari.

I'm not sure, but I suspect it is a display adapter problem.

I had the same problem with guest 10.6 installed on VMware Workstation 7 on WinXP host, and could not boot either right after install. Your workaround did help on boot, thanks! but then I found I could not switch to the native resolution 1440 x 900 that my monitor supports due to the maximum 1280 x1024 restricted by VMware Display setting.

I thought it might be worth to try adding the two lines in vmx file even though my guestOS is configured as darwin10,

svga.enableScreenObject = "TRUE"
svga.enableTracesReg = "TRUE

With the default VMware Display setting, i.e. "Use host setting for monitors" and "Accelerate 3D graphics" under "3D Graphics", the two lines did the trick! I am able to boot again with native solution supported by the monitor!

forgot to mention, Preview "Take Screen Shot" still doesn't work for me after 1.2 installed. and Preview could not open either png or jpeg files, but opening pdf files is fine.

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Using beamoff, and making it start automatically as well, has greatly improved the visual performance on my Yosemite VM. On my VM during booting the screen sometimes looks a bit messed up until OS X loads to login, it's fine once it starts.

Here are some more beginner friendly instructions on how to set it up, particularly useful for those unfamiliar with how file operations work on Mac OSX (all clicks are left mouse button clicks, unless stated otherwise)

Move your mouse pointer to the right of the window over to a space between the Application icons (not over them)

Right-click and select Paste Item

If you don't want to run beamoff automatically, you can double-click to run it

If you want it to run automatically read below

If you want beamoff (or any suitable program) to run automatically on OS X Yosemite 10.10.3

Start your VM and Log in as an Admin (If your VM is running it will typically already be logged in as Admin, unless you have multiple users set up)

Click the Apple menu (the little Apple logo at the top left corner of the screen), then choose System Preferences...

The System Preferences window will open

Choose the Users & Groups icon (it's at the bottom left of the window)

The Users & Groups window will open

Click the name of the Current User in the left column (typically your user name with the word Admin below it)

Towards the top right of the window click Login Items (it's next Password)

Near the bottom of the window click the black + (plus sign, not the greyed out one in the left column)

An Applications window should open (if it doesn't say Applications for some reason, you can select it by clicking the little up ^ & down v arrows at the top centre of the window)

Click the beamoff icon, then click the Add button at the bottom right of the window

You should now have the beamoff Application listed under These items will open automatically when you log in:

If you want to remove it, first click beamoff from the list and then click the black - (minus sign, not the greyed out one in the left column)

I hope this helps.

Obviously there are slightly quicker ways to do this, but if you are unfamiliar with OS X terminal, keyboard shortcuts & probably don't have a Mac Keyboard on the machine running the VM either, this is an easy way for beginners. It also helps familiarise yourself with how to navigate around the Mac desktop, which can be a little strange for people who have not used it before.

Previously, even after update to Yosemite, "Fit Guest" feature worked like charm (and it's very useful, indeed!). But after update to VMWare 11 it's always grayed out now. I've tried re-installing VMWare Tools, re-installing latest VMsvga2 1.2.5, but no luck - it doesn't work anyway... Why so? I there a way to fix it? I would be very thankful for help!

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I have issues too with VMW11 and OSX 10.10 or 10.9, it's just not booting anymore, I analyzed log files and it seems config file have not the same name as in VMW10, perhaps a bad uninstall and registry errors... investigating. If I can't find the clue, I'll rollback to VMW10 + Maverick.